Firefox, my favorite web browser, will finally release version 3 on Tuesday, 17 June 2008.
If you already use Firefox, this new version should fix the memory leak issue that happens when you open up too many tabs. Add-ons are much easier to find, install and manage, too.
If you don’t use Firefox, try it! It’s a free web browser that is faster and safer than Safari or Internet Explorer.
See these pages for more details:
Tags: browser, Firefox, free, open-source, software, webSo the Associated Press thinks they can stop web sites from linking to AP stories. Sounds like an overeager lawyer dug a hole for themselves, or just forgot about the fair use doctrine. After all, the AP is a major supplier of news content to Google, Yahoo, CNN, and almost every major newspaper in the United States.
See Tech Crunch for more details.
Update 16 June 2008: The New York Times has a long discussion about the AP’s reaction to a proposed blog boycott of the AP.
Vanity Fair has published a long oral history of the Internet entitled How the Web was Won, and based on interviews with a variety of notable folks. Here’s links to the single page versions of the article and a photo portfolio. If I had been interviewed for the article, my response would have looked a lot like this:
My first direct connection to the Internet was through my faculty office computer at Marquette University in 1993. I was a visiting assistant professor on a one-year contract, teaching business ethics and management courses.
The main Internet service that I remember using at Marquette was Gopher, a text-based system that used menus instead of hyperlinks. In some ways, it resembled CompuServe, which I had used since 1981. CompuServe was a well-organized walled garden that had a nice variety of content, while Gopher was a rag-tag distributed network of university computers and a few commercial servers.
I became familiar with BITNET while I was at the University of Georgia. Both systems offered portals to Internet services. The first items I ever purchased through e-commerce were a Shriekback CD on CompuServe in 1987, and a Dead Runners Society t-shirt from a listserv in 1990.
In early 1994, the university installed a demo workstation that ran Mosaic. That was the first time i accessed the World Wide Web on a graphical browser. Later that year, I built my first web page, and I’ve had a presence on the web ever since.
Here’s another example of a web-based application suite for enterprises: Google has announced a new version of Salesforce for Google Apps.
Salesforce is a sales management suite that lets companies manage customer lists, related email and other sales-related information.
Connecting Gmail’s enterprise edition and the Google Calendar to Salesforce helps companies keep control of sales information. Data from other Google Apps, including spreadsheets and presentations, can be connected via Salesforce and stored in Google’s servers, not on vulnerable mobile computers.
I wonder how long it will take Microsoft, Oracle, ACT and other competitors to respond.
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